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“I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.”
― City of Thieves
― City of Thieves
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.”
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“Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked. It becomes as shallow and empty as, let us say, an American flirtation.”
― The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis
― The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis
“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.”
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Ilya’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ilya’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Classics, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Philosophy, Psychology, and Thriller
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